Paul_Scholes18
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Have not looked at these stats fully, but from watching Pool raise the game when behind a lot. Not against us much, but they still got a fluke goal.Normally don't have much time for Tompkins (and his "I anecdotally predicted someone would ship 5 past Brazil at the wc", just blergh). He's longwinded and has had us winning the league by numbers any day now for 15 years.
There is some interesting stuff with xG dependent on the scoreline though and how it reflects control of games.
City's drop massively when they go a goal behind, our highest xG is when we are a goal behind (we've yet to be more than one goal behind this season). And also spend much less time being behind than city (17% vs 7%).
City really rake up their xG when they are either behind by more than one goal or ahead by more than one (ie the least consequential phases of a game), which is the stage of the game where our xG output is the lowest as the three points are in the bag by then.
Same for us under SAF no doubt.
Most extreme in the CL vs Barca last season. You get the hope they will drop points yet they improve near the end and win. Very frustrating.